Al Neal
LATEST ARTICLES BY Al Neal
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USA gold medalist pans USA Gymnastics chief over anti-Nike tweet
October 15, 2018U.S. Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles admonished the new chief of USA Gymnastics Saturday for a September 7 tweet mocking Nike.
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Brutality not limited to the ice at the NHL
October 12, 2018Nashville Predators forward Austin Watson was charged with domestic assault and suspended for 27 games, including the entire preseason, for “unacceptable off-ice conduct.”
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Evil Empire returns: Yanks spit in workers’ faces by crossing picket line
October 9, 2018New York Yankees’ players, union members themselves, casually crossed a union picket line out front of Boston's Ritz-Carlton Hotel last Thursday.
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Soccer superstar Christiano Ronaldo hit with sexual assault allegations
October 4, 2018The world’s most famous athlete—as ranked by ESPN in 2016, ’17 and ’18, Christiano Ronaldo, now faces allegations of sexual assault dating back to 2009.
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Down, but not out: Leslie Smith’s UFC fight continues after setback
October 3, 2018Will the organizing efforts continue? Yes.
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NFL player Eric Reid says fight against racial injustice won’t stop
October 2, 2018“Racial injustice has been happening since my people have gotten here. So I just felt the need to say something about it."
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Cubs’ playoff clinch overshadowed by domestic abuse allegations
September 28, 2018The Chicago Cubs are heading to the playoffs, but it's not clear yet whether shortstop Addison Russell will be going with them.
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Nike, Kaepernick, and the profits of “resistance”
September 25, 2018Welcome to the spectacle of modern day advertising—the fetishism of commodities as Karl Marx put it.
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